Remember though that the black Raptor truck they used that night had been with the employee all week, and FD had just received it back between 4-5:30pm that day, a couple of hours before they set off.
MT likely would have known that FD had a different vehicle that week. FD probably told MT the employee left bags of construction trash in the back of the Raptor that he wanted to get rid of before the holiday weekend- you know save money on dumpster fees, etc.
If this was really premeditated FD may have done a test run the week before with some construction trash, especially if he was planning to get rid of JDs body this way. (Continued search at MIRA today implies LE must be thinking that’s likely). So MT might be thinking this is just a normal way of saving money to get rid of construction trash, our fun Friday night trash run. (I also suspect they were high while doing it, adds to the “Friday night fun” ruse of FD).
As the news came out over the course of the week, FD could have even told MT, hey, I hope that employee of mine didn’t have anything to do with it, after all he was down in NC that day. Or worse, suggested that he had heard that the employee and JD were having a fling, etc.
And of course that weekend and following week FD was busy and all caught up in trying to get custody of his kids back.
I know that people want to say that someone who’s willing to have an affair with a married father of 5 must be willing to go along with a murder, but statistics don’t bear this out. There are plenty of philanderers out there who don’t willingly help kill an ex.
The question remains though, when did she catch on? Was it only when the arrest warrant came out that she learned that JDs blood was in the bags? Maybe even then she thought there was a chance that the employee did it and had left the bags in the truck? Maybe this was what she wanted to share with LE in the meeting? And what led them to track down the employee and the truck exchange?
All MOO of course, just a hypothesis from a different angle.
